This is probably a perennial question, but I've been a member of this site since Anne's Kitchen Table shut down, and ONLY JUST discovered the Exhibition Hall!, and I believe the rules for fan fiction have changed.

So --- are there any specific rules that must be followed if you send fan-fiction to the Exhibition Hall?

Do you have to write within the canon Weyrs/Holds/Halls?

Can you write stories about characters from the books?

Can you change the facts as shown in the books?

Can you do alternative timelines by changing one incident in the past?

Actually, most of that sounds reasonable enough. I suppose it makes more sense to ask if there's anything we're not allowed to do, like setting up a story in the past that would leave traces that couldn't be explained in the present, or inventing yet another capability of dragons/whers/firelizards.

The reason for my sudden curiosity is that I've just dropped out of the Arolos Weyr RPG (too much Weyr, too little Hold and Craft activity), and I want to keep writing about Pern.

As far as i'm aware, the only 'no' as far as MOM is concerned is to keep it a sensible rating: pg13 rather than r. Dragondays and some of my other stories have non-explicit sex scenes in them, for instance, but i did check the first one was okay before posting. Anything you'd rate k+/t should be fine, m-rated could do with a content warning, and e-for-explicit is best left to ao3, though there's nothing to say you can't offer a link to an e-rated fic...